Brotherhood

Brotherhood (2020)

إخوان

Mohamed is a hardened shepherd living in rural Tunisia with his wife and two sons. Mohamed is deeply shaken when his oldest son Malik returns home after a long journey with a mysterious new wife. Tension between father and son rises over three days until reaching a breaking point.

Date of release
2020-02-10
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (27)
Runtime
25m
Genres
Drama, Family
Director
Meryam Joobeur

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Tunisia
  • Awards: 6 · Nominations: 1. Including: film award; film award; film award; film award; film award; film award

Brotherhood is a short film directed by Meryam Joobeur and released in September 2018. The film explores tensions in a Tunisian family when the eldest son returns home with a new Syrian wife who wears a full niqab, igniting the father's suspicions that his son has joined ISIL. The film's title was chosen to reflect both the familial connotations of the word "brotherhood" and its use in the name of the controversial Islamist organization Muslim Brotherhood.

Production

The film is set and filmed in the Sajnan region of northern Tunisia and the brother actors found while Joobeur and cinematographer Vincent Gonneville were scouting the area for a different project, crossing paths with the brothers in a field as they were herding their flock of sheep.

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